Sulivan saved! And the fall-out....

So Sulivan Primary has been saved and this is quite frankly the best political thing that has ever happened to me (yep, I know, sad - but it really is a wonderful school).

I wrote about it here for Left Foot Forward.

Sadly, the Tory smears are continuing. Since Labour won the local election in Hammersmith and Fulham and revoked Sulivan's closure, the DfE has delayed the opening of Fulham Boys' School by a year. Tories such as Harry Phibbs are claiming that this is Labour's fault.

I've posted a comment on Tory Councillor Harry Phibb's blog on this issue, but it's awaiting moderation (I only posted it a few mins ago and, assuming not everyone is an insomniac like me, I am not implying that he has refused to accept it!). But I still wanted to post the reply here tonight.

So, here is Phibb's blog

And this is my reply:

Wendy Aldridge, Sulivan's award-winning head teacher, would have lost her job if Sulivan had been closed, along with some of Sulivan's teachers/teaching assistants. Sulivan's pupils would have transferred to a different school - one which is nowhere near as good as Sulivan.

You mention "Sulivan parents who had been told their school would have closed" - well, yes, that's because the school would have been closed. That's why your administration issued the school with a discontinuation notice - to discontinue it and move the children elsewhere http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Images/final%20draft%20stat%20notice%20NK%20and%20S%20revocation%2030%20June%202014_tcm21-189470.pdf. 

By your logic, so long as those boys who signed up for FBS are found new places (which they will be), then their school hasn't been discontinued, or delayed from opening, right? 

When it comes to schools, and hospitals for that matter, the public understand the word 'closure' very differently to Hammersmith and Fulham Tories. Did you not learn that lesson in May?